Still Going Down

[oneshot]

Went up by the Dam the Lake is still going down but Pomme de Terre River is sure running high.

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[MOPanfisher]

Yep still running 3500 until sometime next week probably.

[oneshot]

You can tell Truman is running more the way it is going down. Told my wife we could fish by our Cabin but it is still too muddy. Once everyone quits running water on the Lakes and everything settles down might be better fishing. Seems water going down Catfish don't want to bite.

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[MOPanfisher]

It will settle down son enough for the holiday folks to stir it up again.  By then it's just too hot for me to take anymore.

[Gumboot]

MOPan

Will it go from 3500 to 50 or will you step it down gradually?  I've been thinking that running 3500 for several weeks that a bunch of fish could have moved up the river.  Was thinking of putting yak in below the dam on Sunday, if flow is reasonable.

Just noticed that forecast to bring it down to 1500 Wed/Thurs...

[MOPanfisher]

We stepped it down to 1500 cfs today.  Will run at that until Thursday morning when we bump it up to 3000 cfs for the day so the MSHP can do some swift water boat traing, then back down until next week when MDC has a training.  Usually it is stepped down a little more steadily, but the trainings and the timing altered it somewhat.  There a TON of small crappie in the river and probably all down the river.  Not sure what it will be running over the weekend, one for cast called for 50 cfs.  They will run the models again later this week and let us know.

[NicknKC]

MoPanfisher, looking at the latest lake level forecast, is there any reason why they are cutting it down to 50 cfs and holding the lake almost 3 1/2 foot high at 842.5.?  Shouldn't they be pulling it down to pool around 839?  Just curious...

[MOPanfisher]

We are only going to drop it to 100 CFS right now, am holding some water back for a 3 day swift water training next week as well.  "normal" late spring into early summer level is 841.0.  Held a little high to enhance the survivability of fish spawn/fry.